CLEP

CLEP Exam Titles

The College-Level Examination Program, unlike Advanced Placement, is not built around
a curriculum, but rather is designed to test students' knowledge on a variety of college-level
subjects, regardless of where they may have learned the material. CLEP exams are developed
by committees of college faculty who design questions based on what is typically covered
in lower-level college courses and who set passing standards for the exams (scores
are no longer based on studies of student performance in college courses). With the
new computer-based tests, new questions are constantly being added, especially in
rapidly-changing fields such as Computer Science. The typical passing score on computer-based
CLEP exams for general education purposes is 50.